Ten Reasons Not to Love NATO. NY Times loves NATO but should anyone else? NATO has no legal authority to bomb places or murder Putin, excludes taxpayers’ elected representatives in congress. NATO’s reason for existence was Soviet Union which ended in 1991. NATO is objective reality, Trump’s or anyone’s opinion of it is irrelevant-David Swanson

3. Trump is not trying to destroy NATO.Donald Trump, as a candidate and as U.S. President, has wondered aloud and even promised all kinds of things and, in many cases, the exact opposite as well. When it comes to actions, Trump has not taken any actions to limit or end or withdraw from NATO. He has demanded that NATO members buy more weapons, which is of course a horrible idea. Even in the realm of rhetoric, when European officials have discussed creating a European military, independent of the United States, Trump has replied by demanding that they instead support NATO.

Anonymous U.S. military officials describe the current cold war as driven by weapons profits. Those profits are massive, and NATO now accounts for about three-quarters of military spending and weapons dealing on the globe.